If you head to the Storage section of the Settings on a new Galaxy S4, you’ll find that only 8.82GB is available to the user. That’s the total space available to you, so applications that were pre-loaded by your carrier and anything you sync over during account creation will pull from that amount. The rest of that 16GB you can’t even see as the user — Android tells you that the phone only has 8.82GB total, entirely cutting out the space used by the system itself.

Terrible.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1657950225 Jeff Slater

Maybe they shouldn’t have included everything plus the kitchen sink after all?

http://www.thegraphicmac.com/ JimD

But it’s OPEN, you stupid iSheep!!!

Good grief.

http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

Yeah, open means you can nix those default apps pretty easily.

http://www.thegraphicmac.com/ JimD

OR, they could just not put them on there to begin with, since a good majority of people probably don’t even realize you can delete things.

These carriers are turning into the computer OEMs of the last few decades… loading their crap onto every machine they sell.

http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

Agreed on them not putting extra apps on there and people not realizing how to delete those apps but your typical “open” sarcasm falls flat on its face, since open is what allows you to get rid of it (unlike iOS where you’re stuck with Apple’s 20+ default apps).